TechPresident
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Techpresident.com is nonpartisan website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry that tracks how the internet is impacting the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns.[1] The site follows how the campaigns are utilizing new internet-based strategies and how citizens are creating Voter-Generated Content like YouTube videos, Facebook groups, and other types of media. Techpresident.com is an extension of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and online magazine which focuses on the broader topic of how technology is changing politics and advocacy. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Blog
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Editorial
Edited By:
Kaizar Campwala
Last Edit:
Aug 27, 2008 - 1:09 PM PDT
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Politics (15), U.S. (10), Media (8), Presidential Election 2008 (8), Media and Politics (7), Obama Administration (6), Business (5), Social Networks (3), Sci/Tech (3), Internet (3), Democrats (3), Republicans (2), Extra (1), Democratic Nomination (1), John McCain (1)...
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Micah Sifry (6), Zephyr Teachout (2), Micah L Sifry (2), David All (1), Colin Delany (1), Tiago Peixoto (1), Luigi Montanez (1), Nick Judd (1)
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Opinion (12), Comment (1), Editorial (1), Special Report (1), Speech (1)
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Transparency on the Web: a Democrat Virtue?
() The study Show Us the Stimulus (Good Jobs First) is one of the most comprehensive and systematic assessments of US state "recovery" websites. The authors of the report analyze ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality
The truth is that Obama was never nearly as free of dependence on big money donors as the reporting suggested, nor was his movement as bottom-up or people-centric as his ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
What Happens to the Obama Network After the Election?
() We vote in order to change the country, to exercise our rights, to make our voices heard and a hundred other clichés as shopworn as they are true. But we also vote because it ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Obama's Long Tail is Producing Results on the Ground
() This is the "long tail" in practice. I'm not going to argue that all of this is solely because of how well the Obama campaign has used the internet. The investments the ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
How much is 700 billion?
() Big numbers are hard for people to process. 700 billion can start to sound like 300 billion, or 900 million for that matter. It becomes like sand grains or moon strands, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Online Social Networks in Politics: Promise, Frustration and...
() Is 2008 the MySpace/Facebook election? You might think so from the political attention and resources invested in online social networks in the past year or so. The top ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
McCain's "The One" Attack Video: Does it Have a Deeper Message?
() The Matthew 25 movement--a group of progressive evangelicals that runs a PAC and has endorsed Obama--is charging that the ad is actually full of coded messages meant to ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
United, Delta, American, Southwest...the Airlines Move in on Moveon
() A few years ago, I argued that there were three powerful forces in modern society--civic democracy, corporations, and religion--and which ever of these learned how to harness ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The FISA Protest and myBO: Can We Talk? Can They Listen?
() The fact is, we're all entering completely new territory here. There have always been efforts to influence political candidates to take or change positions during a campaign ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The Trustees of the Republican Leadership Trust
() We thought we'd been covering the political technology space pretty well over the last year or so, but a new top-secret project somehow alluded us. Convinced that the ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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